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Jeff Knowlton and Naomi
Spellman
July - September 2004
Read the Blog:
http://project_diary.blogspot.com/
Project Description
The work we are developing is an urban exploration shaped from the
immediate environment and from online databases. It unfolds in realtime,
through space, as the visitor makes her way through the city. The
Interpretive Engine creates an audio and visual narrative, relying
on the visitors' location and direction – as well as on access
to wireless internet connections along the way. The Interpretive
engine is a computer-based work, which can be experienced singly
or in small groups, either from a visitor's own laptop, or from
equipment checked out to visitors. It requires no input from the
visitor, other than her natural progression through a loosely delineated
space. The project takes into account local surroundings, events,
and available telecommunications infrastructure.
Server
side data will be parsed in real time from a variety of predetermined
online resources, including a news source, a national or metropolitan
historic database, a weather source, a local directory, most-wanted
international criminal directory, etc. The project will parse and
interpret this data, and integrate it into a site specific narrative.
Key to this project is a shift in consciousness of the listener,
through an exposure of something that is already always present:
the [invisible] wireless network. We will encourage visitors to
question how informational databases are accessed and controlled
in an era of increasingly pervasive corporate and governmental control.
Online
documentation of Artists' projects:
Current
Project Development
http://project_diary.blogspot.com/
InterUrban
Futuresonic <04> Festival
Manchester, England
2004
http://interurban.34n118w.net
34
North, 118 West
2002
The first GPS-controlled interactive narrative
Los Angeles, California, USA
http://34n118w.net
Right
as Rain
A weather dependent love sonnet
2001
Uses current weather information to determine outcomes in an online
story.
http://thepharmakon.org/RightAsRain/
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